World War II fighter pilot Richard Fleischer will be at Saturday's Armed Forces Celebration event at the Western Sky Warbird Museum in St. George.

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When World War II fighter pilot Richard Fleischer arrived in New Guinea to play his part in bolstering the Allied Forces' efforts to gain control of the South Pacific, the Americans were sending about 500 planes against 5,000 Japanese planes.

"Port Moresby was the first place. The Japs had practically all of (the other cities)," the St. George resident said Tuesday. "They've got hotels now and quite the tourist bit."

Fleischer, a retired Army Air Corps lieutenant who flew a P-47 Mustang, will join retired Maj. Alden Rigby of Bountiful at the third annual Armed Forces Celebration event this ...